New Parliamentary Website

A new parliamentary website is going to be made publicly available on Monday. It will be at the domain www.parliament.nz (will link when live).

I had a preview of the new site around a month ago, and it has some real significant enhancements over the existing site. Each bill now has its own page with links to the version of it at every stage, select committee reports and hansard debates on it.

Contacting MPs is also a lot easier with the ability to get a list by portfolio for all parties, so you can select say Conservation and it will show the Conservation Spokepersons for every party.

I’ll do a fuller review on Monday. For people like me who often want to look up parliamentary information, it’s going to be a great improvement.